Unique Cross-OS Support. Highly Compatible​

Derived from AMD’s revolutionary Mantle API, Vulkan® is a powerful low-overhead graphics API designed for developers who want or need deeper hardware control over GPU acceleration for maximized performance and predictability.

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Vulkan™ supports close-to-metal control enabling faster performance and better image quality Windows® 10, Windows® 11, and Linux®. No other graphics API offers the same powerful combination of OS compatibility, rendering features, and hardware efficiency.

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Forged By the Industry

Developed by the Khronos Group, the same consortium that developed OpenGL®, Vulkan™ is a descendant of AMD’s Mantle, inheriting a powerful low-overhead architecture that gives software developers complete access to the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon™ GPUs and multi-core CPUs.

Compared to OpenGL, Vulkan™ substantially reduces “API overhead” – the background work a CPU does to interpret what a game asks of the hardware – to deliver meaningful features, performance, and image quality and expose GPU hardware features that wouldn’t ordinarily be accessible through OpenGL.

Footnotes
  1. Product is conformant with Vulkan™ 1.0 Specification.

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